Munneli, Alicia H.; Aubry, Jean-Pierre; Quinby, Laura - 2010
NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Public pension funding has recently become a front-burner policy issue in the … current funding of state and local pensions using a sample of 126 plans, estimating an aggregate funded ratio in 2009 of 78 … among plans, so the paper explores the influence of four types of factors: funding discipline, plan governance, plan …